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AWS – AWS introduces container image signing
Today, AWS Signer and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) launched image signing, a new feature that enables you to sign and verify container images. You can now use Signer, a managed signing service, to validate that only container images you have approved are deployed in your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Spark Operator and spark-submit
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Spark Operator and spark-submit as new job submission models for Apache Spark, in addition to the existing StartJobRun API. With today’s launch, you now have the flexibility to submit your Apache Spark jobs via your preferred submission model on Amazon EMR on EKS […]

AWS – Announcing Live Tail in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, providing real-time exploration of logs
We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, a new interactive log analytics experience feature that helps you detect and debug anomalies in applications. You can now view your logs interactively in real-time as they’re ingested, which helps you to analyze and resolve issues across your systems and applications. Read More for the […]

AWS – AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces now provides more flexibility routing with path parameters
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces now supports path parameters in routes for Lambda and URL service endpoints. Refactor Spaces reduces the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building and operating the AWS infrastructure necessary for incremental refactoring, letting you focus on evolving your applications into microservices. With this launch, Refactor Spaces gives you greater control when creating […]

AWS – AWS Glue Data Quality is now generally available
AWS announces general availability of AWS Glue Data Quality, a capability that automatically measures and monitors data lake and data pipeline quality. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. Read More for the […]

AWS – SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning automatically chooses tuning configurations
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now able to automatically choose hyperparameter ranges, search strategy, maximum runtime of a tuning job, early stopping type for training jobs, number of times to retry a training job, and model convergence flag to stop a tuning job, based on the objective metric you provide. This minimizes the time required for you […]

Azure – General availability: New KQL function to enrich your data analysis with geographic context
KQL introduces a new function to retrieve country, state, city, and coordinates from IP addresses using GeoLite2 data. Find out how to use geo_info_from_ip_address() and what it can do for your data analysis. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as low as four hours. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway
Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions Read More for the details.